Society guideline links: Hemodialysis vascular access

Introduction — 

This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Venous access" and "Society guideline links: Dialysis".)

International

●Charing Cross (CX): A consensus on arteriovenous access ischemic steal (AVAIS) in haemodialysis (2016)

●International evidence-based recommendations on ultrasound-guided vascular access (2012)

Canada

●Canadian Vascular Access Association (CVAA): Canadian vascular access and infusion therapy guidelines (2019)

United States

●American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM): Practice parameter for the performance of vascular ultrasound for postoperative assessment of hemodialysis access, revision (2024)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on dialysis fistula malfunction (2023)

●AIUM: Practice parameter for the performance of ultrasound vessel mapping prior to dialysis access creation (2021)

●National Kidney Foundation Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (NKF KDOQI): Clinical practice guidelines for vascular access, 2019 update (published 2020)

●American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN): White paper on patient selection, education, and cannulation of percutaneous arteriovenous fistulae (2019)

●Society for Vascular Ultrasound (SVU): Vascular technology professional performance guidelines for lower extremity vein mapping (updated 2019)

●SVU: Vascular technology professional performance guidelines for the evaluation of hemodialysis access (updated 2019)

●SVU: Vascular technology professional performance guidelines for upper extremity mapping for creation of dialysis access or bypass graft (updated 2019)

●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections (2011, updated 2017)

●Society for Interventional Radiology (SIR): Quality improvement guidelines for percutaneous image-guided management of the thrombosed or dysfunctional dialysis circuit (2016)

Europe

●European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS): Clinical practice guidelines on the management of vascular graft and endograft infections (2020)

●ESVS: Clinical practice guidelines on vascular access (2018)

United Kingdom

●UK Kidney Association (UKKA): Clinical practice guideline – Vascular access for haemodialysis (2023)

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Interventional procedures guidance on percutaneous endovascular forearm arteriovenous fistula creation for haemodialysis access (2021)

●The Renal Association (RA): Clinical practice guideline – Haemodialysis (2019)

Japan

●[In English] Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy (JSDT): Guidelines of vascular access construction and repair for chronic hemodialysis, 2011 update (published 2015)

●[In Japanese] JDST: Guidelines of vascular access construction and repair for chronic hemodialysis (2011)